Salary insights

Salary in Information technology in the United Kingdom

Market pay levels based on 1 122 offers with salary.

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Recalculated from open vacancies where the employer states pay.

Median65 425 £Half of offers pay more, half pay less
Average71 962 £Arithmetic mean of all offers
Lower quartile55 000 £25% of offers pay less
Upper quartile95 556 £25% of offers pay more

How pay is distributed

The band covers the middle half of the market (25th–75th percentile); the line marks the median.

Lower quartile55 000 £
Median65 425 £
Upper quartile95 556 £

What the numbers mean

  • Half of all offers fall between 55 000 £ and 95 556 £.
  • Every fourth offer pays more than 95 556 £.
  • The upper quartile is 74% above the lower one.
  • The average (71 962 £) is 10% above the median — a few high offers pull it up.
  • The estimate uses 1 122 vacancies with a stated salary.

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Bloomreach United Kingdom ·

Staff Software Engineer

1 520 000 – 1 900 000 Kč

Bloomreach is building the world’s premier agentic platform for personalization.We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to person…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteUnited Kingdom
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Grafana Labs United Kingdom ·

Senior Software Engineer, Security Assurance | Sweden | Remote

775 444 – 930 533 kr

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and opt…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteUnited Kingdom
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Dropbox United Kingdom ·

Full Stack Product Software Engineer

272 000 – 368 000 zł

Role Description As a Full Stack Engineer at Dropbox, you will help design and develop the seamless, scalable, and user-friendly experiences Dropbox users depend on. Your work will encompas…

Full time6+ yearsRemoteUnited Kingdom
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GitLab United Kingdom ·

Principal Engineer, Duo Agent Platform

250 000 – 325 000 $

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and complian…

Full time6+ yearsRemoteUnited Kingdom
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GitLab United Kingdom ·

Principal Security Researcher

203 200 – 275 000 $

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and complian…

Full time3–6 yearsRemoteUnited Kingdom
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Frequently asked questions

Why show the median instead of the average?

The median (65 425 £) is the middle of the market: half of the offers pay more and half pay less. Unlike the average (71 962 £), it is not skewed by a handful of very high salaries.

What does the typical range mean?

From 55 000 £ to 95 556 £ is the middle half of all offers — the 25th to 75th percentile. A quarter of vacancies pay below 55 000 £ and a quarter above 95 556 £.

Where does the data come from?

From 1 122 open vacancies with a stated salary that Finder collects from public sources. Numbers are recalculated as the selection changes.

How do I tell whether I am paid fairly?

Compare your pay with the median and the quartiles: near 65 425 £ is the market level, above 95 556 £ is the strong quarter, below 55 000 £ is a reason to negotiate. Use the “Compare my salary” button on this page.

How we calculate salaries

Short methodology and the data behind these numbers.

  1. 1We collect offersOnly vacancies from open sources where the employer states pay are used.
  2. 2We normalise themA salary range is reduced to one comparable value per vacancy.
  3. 3We compute percentilesMedian, quartiles and the average are calculated from at least 5 offers; otherwise the wider country market is shown.
  4. 4We refresh the numbersStatistics are recomputed as new vacancies appear and closed ones drop out.

Figures are pay as published by employers: taxes, bonuses and seniority inside a grade are not accounted for.